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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Erith 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]
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TABLE V.
Infantile Mortality during the Year 1907.
Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.
| CAUSE OF DEATH. | Under l week. | 1-2 weeks. | 2-3 weeks. | 3-4 weeks. | Total under 1 month. | 1-2 months. | 2-3 months. | 3-4 months. | 4-5 months. | 5-6 months. | 6-7 months. | 7-8 months. | 8-9 months. | 9-10 months. | 10-11 months. | 11-12 months. | Total deaths under i year. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes. | Certified Uncertified | 15 | 3 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 72 | |||
| Common Infectiou Diseases | Measles | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Diarrhoea Diseases | Diarrhoea, all forms | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Wasting Diseases. | Premature Birth | 8 | 1 | 9 | 9 | |||||||||||||
| Congenital Defects | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| (Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | |||||||||||
| Tuber- culous Diseases. | Tuberculous Meningitis | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Syphilis | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Convulsions | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | i | 9 | |||||||||||
| Suffocation, overlying | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Other Causes | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 15 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 72 | |||||
Population estimated to middle of 1907 28,481
Births in the year legitimate 838
Illegitimate 14
Deaths in the year 69
Illegitimate Intants 3
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 202